In the summer of 1942, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill visited Moscow with American envoys. Stalin was very pleased, and he prepared a ceremonial reception of the highest standard. During the talks, Stalin asked Britain, the United States and other countries to open a second front. But Churchill made it clear that Britain could not help it, and the U.S. Special Envoy, President Roosevelt, said that the United States could aid Soviet equipment, but could not directly enter the war. Stalin was very angry, which meant that the Soviet Union would face the attack of Nazi Germany alone.
First, the behavior of the Soviet Union in the early days of World War II made Britain, the United States and other countries hold a grudge
A month before the outbreak of World War II, Germany and the Soviet Union signed the infamous Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact. According to the terms of this treaty, when Germany attacked Western Europe, the Soviet Union would choose neutrality. When the Soviet Union expanded its power into Northern Europe, Germany did not interfere. On September 1, 1939, 1.5 million German troops attacked Poland, and the Soviet Union also sent 1.1 million troops to attack Poland from the east. In central Poland, the Germans met the Soviets, and the Germans put up a sign: "Salute to the Soviets." Hitler said he would visit the Soviet Union in 1940, and the Soviet Union's actions before the full outbreak of World War II were even more speechless, and in order to expand its territorial scope and increase its strategic buffer zone in Europe, the Soviet Union chose to attack Finland, which had no half-cent relationship with Germany, and annexed the three Baltic states. In the minds of Westerners at the time, the Soviet Union was no different from Nazi Germany. During the Soviet attack on Finland, the League of Nations expelled the Soviet Union from membership.
In 1940, Germany swept through Western Europe, and the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and other countries fell successively. France, known as Europe's number one power, also held out for only 40 days before finally surrendering to Germany. At that time, only The British, which was isolated overseas in the whole of Western Europe, was still stubbornly resisting, and it was precisely because Britain was surrounded by the sea on all sides and separated by the English Channel that it was difficult for Germany, which was in a navy, to defeat Britain. In addition to Britain's own powerful navy and air force, there is also the United States to help, the defeat of the British air war is that Germany has no way to take Britain, so as to develop the V2 missile to attack the British mainland, but did not cause too much damage to Britain.
The United States has been providing continuous assistance to Britain for its own benefit. Germany saw that britain would not be able to solve it for a while and a half, and the Soviet Union was constantly strengthening its defenses against Germany. Moreover, the Soviet army had just undergone the Great Purge, and the soviet army's poor performance in the Soviet-Finnish War, which caused Hitler to change his strategy and decide to turn around and attack the Soviet Union first. After obtaining the rich resources of the Soviet Union, it was time to turn back to The British, and even if the United States entered the war, there was nothing to fear. In June 1941, 5.5 million German troops attacked the Soviet Union in three ways, Operation Barbarossa began, and the Soviet-German war was in full swing. Due to Stalin's misjudgment and the Germans' secrecy, the Soviets were not prepared for war at all. Under the attack of the German blitzkrieg, the Soviet army was defeated and lost, losing 2 million troops in half a month.
Second, it is true that Britain and the United States were also unable to assist the Soviet Union
After the German attack on the Soviet Union, Britain finally breathed a sigh of relief, and Churchill was eager for Stalin and Hitler to die. Just as the Soviet-German war intensified, the short-sighted Japan made a blind move. The Japanese sneaked into Pearl Harbor, the U.S. military base, a move that spurred the United States into World War II in advance. At this time, the combat effectiveness of the US army is not necessarily strong, but the industrial production capacity of the United States is quite terrifying, and the three countries of Germany, Italy and Japan are not rivals together. After the United States entered World War II, on the one hand, it fought with the Japanese army in the Pacific, on the other hand, it could also assist Britain, China and the Soviet Union, and in the middle and late part of the war, the strategic bombers of the American army and the British army began to bomb the industrial facilities in the German mainland and occupied areas, which further disintegrated the war potential of the German army and alleviated the air pressure on the Eastern Front of the Soviet Union. However, at this time, Britain and the United States and other countries sat idly by while Germany and the Soviet Union fought, with no intention of going up to help. Judging from the situation at that time, the United States was busy with the Pacific theater, the United Kingdom was busy with the North African battlefield, and the two countries did not have much energy to take care of the Soviet Union, but the Strength of the Allied Forces to land in Normandy earlier was still there.
In fact, the bigger reason is political reasons, two years ago, when the German army invaded France, Britain sent reinforcements across the sea. When it came to the Soviet Union, Britain and the United States refused to send a single soldier. This is mainly a matter of ideology, the Soviet Union is an outlier in the world, ostracized by all countries. But because Nazi Germany was too powerful, countries had to unite against each other. But this alliance has its own ghost, and judging by the strength of Britain and the United States, they are fully capable of launching a local offensive in Europe. It's just that they prefer to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight. The ultimate plan of the two countries was to see who would fall first, and if Germany won, they would attack Germany while Germany was tired from a long war. If the Soviet Union wins, Britain and the United States will seize the fruits of victory. If the Soviets and Germans were both defeated, Britain and the United States would clean them all up.
In 1944, in the face of Germany's defeat, British and American troops were dispatched
In the later stages of World War II, it was indeed the Soviets who undertook the main task of attacking the Germans. It is true that the Soviet Union attacked Germany. After a series of twists and turns, such as the Battle of Moscow and the Battle of Stalingrad, the Soviet army began to counterattack. The defeat of the German army began to show, and by the end of 1943, this situation was even more pronounced, when the Soviet Union launched ten Stalinese assaults to push the front beyond the border. It was time for the British and American allies to successfully open up a second front in Normandy and other places. During World War II, Germany lost more than 2.8 million soldiers, of which the Soviet army eliminated 2 million, and Britain, the United States, France and other countries only eliminated more than 800,000. Judging from the situation on both sides at that time, even the British and American troops did not land in Normandy. The Soviet Union would also defeat Germany, of course it would be impossible to think in 1945. Britain, France, the United States, and the Soviet Union were all about fighting against Germany's temporary community of interests, and after Germany's defeat and surrender, this alliance immediately parted ways, and the creepy Cold War began.